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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 95: Kosmische Strahlung VI

T 95.7: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 12. März 2015, 18:15–18:30, I.12.01 (HS 30)

Astroparticle Physics with the Square Kilometre Array — •Clancy W. James¹, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz², Justin D. Bray³, Stijn Buitink⁴, Rustam D. Dagkesamanskii⁵, Richard Dallier^6,7, Ron D. Ekers⁸, Heino Falcke^4,9, Ken G. Gayley¹⁰, Tim Heuge¹¹, Lilian Martin^6,7, Maaijke Mevius¹², Robert L. Mutel¹⁰, Raymond J. Protheroe¹³, Benoit Revenu⁶, Olaf Scholten¹², Frank Schroeder¹¹, Ralph E. Spencer¹⁴, and Sander ter Veen⁴ — ¹Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg — ²Univ. de Santiago de Compostela — ³Univ. of Southampton — ⁴Radboud Univ. Nijmegen — ⁵Lebedev Physical Institute — ⁶Subatech, Nantes — ⁷Station de radioastronomie de Nançay — ⁸CSIRO ATNF, Epping — ⁹ASTRON, Dwingeloo — ¹⁰Univ. of Iowa — ¹¹KIT, Karlsruhe — ¹²Univ. of Groningen — ¹³Univ. of Adelaide — ¹⁴Univ. of Manchester

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be a giant array of radio telescopes to be built in Australia and Southern Africa over the next ten years. This talk outlines two projects which aim to use this radio-astronomical instrument to detect high-energy cosmic rays interacting in the Earth’s atmosphere, and on the Moon. Equipped with transient buffers to capture the nanosecond-duration radio pulses produced by these particle interactions, the SKA will be able to study air shower physics with high-precision near-field interferometry, the cosmic-ray composition near the knee, and perform directional studies in the highest-energy regime, above 10¹⁹ eV.